ApacheConEU Cloud Track CFP

Mo Morsi mmorsi at redhat.com
Wed Aug 1 19:57:35 UTC 2012


On 08/01/2012 03:32 PM, Francesco Vollero wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 04:17:35AM +1000, Justin Clift wrote:
>> On 01/08/2012, at 6:08 AM, Mo Morsi wrote:
>>> See there have been a bunch of changes / suggestions on the document,
>>> which looks good but it is getting lengthy IMO. Abstracts should be on
>>> the shorter side and focus on what the audience will be gaining / taking
>>> away from the presentation / project.
>>>
>>> Just attaching a typical proposal template which I've used for
>>> conferences in the past:
>>>
>>> Title: Opening up Cloud Computing with Aeolus
>>> Presenter: Mo Morsi <mmorsi at redhat.com> <315.863.7088>
>>>
>>>
>>> Abstract:
>>> Recent years have seen an influx of Cloud Computing services offered by
>>> a plethora of vendors with many different APIs and interfaces. The
>>> diversity of these products offer many solutions at various levels of
>>> the stack, but increases the risk of proprietary cloud adoption due to
>>> vendor lock-in and downtime.
>>>
>>> With Aeolus we aim to provide a Free and Open Source cloud computing
>>> framework through which instances can be launched against any cloud provider
>>> using the same API and toolset. The infrastructure permits the
>>> description of software services and hardware components in such a way
>>> that any set of software packages can be deployed to any cloud provider
>>> matching specified criteria.
>>>
>>> For this <conf-name> presentation, I propose discussing how we
>>> represent many different cloud providers, some proprietary and others
>>> open, in a vendor-agnostic way, and the methodology through which
>>> software and hardware is described, instances are scheduled, and the
>>> entire framework is managed.
>>>
>>>
>>> Feel free to use as is, take pieces, or just continue in your own
>>> direction. Hope it helps,
>> This is really good.  Franto, are you ok to submit this "as is" ?
>>
> Yes, sounds like a plan for me. Mo is ok for you? 
>
> Cheers,
> Francesco
>
>> + Justin
>>
>> --
>> Aeolus Community Manager
>> http://www.aeolusproject.org
>>

Sure thing Francesco, by all means.

  -Mo






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